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Sussex Land District
Sussex Land District is a land district (cadastral division) of Western Australia, located within the South-West Land Division on the state's west coast. It covers the south-western corner of the state and includes the townsites of Busselton, Margaret River and Augusta as well as Cape Naturaliste and Cape Leeuwin. History The system of land districts came together in an ad-hoc fashion, and the Sussex district started to be subdivided in 1840 well before any thought was given to formally defining its boundaries. The definition later used by the Lands and Surveys department came from an 1862 gazettal which read as follows: Towns and areas Towns The Sussex district contains the following current or former townsites:Western Australian Government Gazette, various editions. Accessed at Battye Library, Perth. Agricultural areas Under the ''Land Act 1898'', the ''Agricultural Lands Purchase Act 1896'', and preceding regulations, it was open to the Governor to declare agricultural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a total land area of . It is the second-largest country subdivision in the world, surpassed only by Russia's Sakha Republic. the state has 2.76 million inhabitants percent of the national total. The vast majority (92 percent) live in the south-west corner; 79 percent of the population lives in the Perth area, leaving the remainder of the state sparsely populated. The first Europeans to visit Western Australia belonged to the Dutch Dirk Hartog expedition, who visited the Western Australian coast in 1616. The first permanent European colony of Western Australia occurred following the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Grove, Western Australia
Forest Grove is a locality in the South West region of Western Australia in the Shire of Augusta-Margaret River Shire is a traditional term for an administrative division of land in Great Britain and some other English-speaking countries such as Australia and New Zealand. It is generally synonymous with county. It was first used in Wessex from the begin .... References Towns in Western Australia Shire of Augusta–Margaret River {{WesternAustralia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Land Improvement
Land development is the alteration of landscape in any number of ways such as: * Changing landforms from a natural or semi-natural state for a purpose such as agriculture or House, housing * subdivision (land), Subdividing real estate into Lot (real estate), lots, typically for the purpose of building homes * Real estate development or changing its purpose, for example by converting an unused factory complex into a condominium. Economic aspects In an economic context, land development is also sometimes advertised as land improvement or land amelioration. It refers to investment making land more usable by humans. For accounting purposes it refers to any variety of projects that increase the property value, value of the process . Most are depreciable, but some land improvements are not able to be depreciated because a useful life cannot be determined. Home building and containment are two of the most common and the oldest types of development. In an Urban development, urban context ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alienation (property Law)
In property law, alienation is the voluntary act of an owner of some property to dispose of the property, while alienability, or being alienable, is the capacity for a piece of property or a property right to be sold or otherwise transferred from one party to another. Most property is alienable, but some may be subject to restraints on alienation. In England under the feudal system, land was generally transferred by subinfeudation, and alienation required license from the overlord. When William Blackstone published ''Commentaries on the Laws of England'' between 1765-1769, he described the principal object of English real property laws as the law of inheritance, which maintained the cohesiveness and integrity of estates through generations and thus secured political power within families. In 1833, Justice Joseph Story in his ''Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States'' linked landowners' jealous watchfullness of their rights and spirit of resistance in the American R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yallingup, Western Australia
Yallingup is a town in the South West (Western Australia), South West region of Western Australia, south of Perth, Western Australia, Perth. Yallingup is a popular tourist destination because of its beaches and limestone caves, and proximity to Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park. History and industry Yallingup's name means "Place of caves" in the local Aboriginal Wardandi dialect, with "yal" meaning "large hole"; the name has been rumoured to mean "place of love" due to the popularity of weddings and honeymoons in the town. After its caves were discovered by European settlers in 1899, Yallingup became popular with tourists, and its early infrastructure was photographed by Amelia Bunbury, Coyarre. There was a state primary school in Yallingup from 1905 to 1963; the site now contains a Waldorf education, Steiner school. Around 1920, the Yallingup Hall, which was previously a school building in Karridale, Western Australia, Karridale, was moved to the townsite and reassembled. Touris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wonnerup, Western Australia
The townsite of Wonnerup is located south of Perth and east of Busselton, Western Australia, Busselton. It was gazetted a townsite in 1856, deriving its name from the nearby Vasse-Wonnerup Estuary, Wonnerup Inlet. The name is Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal, and has been shown on maps of the region since 1839. The meaning of the name is "place of the woman's digging or fighting stick"; the Noongar language, Noongar word for fighting stick is ''wonna'', while the suffix ''-up'' denotes ''place of''. The wonna was made from the peppermint tree, ''Agonis flexuosa'', a coastal native found only in the south-west, and was a common trade item of the Noongar people. The Wonnerup massacre of Wardandi Noongar people by European settlers occurred in the vicinity of the area in 1841. The Ballaarat Tramline, Western Australia's first railway and railway bridge, was constructed in 1871 in the locality of Lockville, within Wonnerup. Wonnerup was later the junction of the Bunbury, Wester ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witchcliffe, Western Australia
Witchcliffe is a small town in the South West region of Western Australia, located a few kilometres south of Margaret River on the Bussell Highway. The name originates from a cave in the area, Witchcliffe cave, that was recorded by a surveyor in 1900. It is believed the name was given by the Bussell family whose property, Wallcliffe, was established in the area in the 1850s. History In 1924 the government extended the Flinders Bay Branch Railway to Witchcliffe. The siding was to be named Narawary but a post office already existed at the site with the name Witchcliffe, having opened in 1923, so the siding was named Witchcliffe in 1925. Lots were surveyed and sold along the siding in 1924 and the townsite was gazetted in 1926. The town was built around the timber industry, with the Witchcliffe sawmill A sawmill (saw mill, saw-mill) or lumber mill is a facility where logs are cut into lumber. Modern sawmills use a motorized saw to cut logs lengthwise to make long pieces, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasse, Western Australia
Vasse is a suburb of the city of Busselton in the South West region of Western Australia, west of Busselton and southwest of Perth. Its local government area is the City of Busselton. At the 2016 census, Vasse had a population of 2,479. The area was originally inhabited by the Wardandi people. Hurford and Penney seem to have had a bay whaling operation in Geographe Bay in 1846. The town is named after the Vasse River and Vasse Estuary, both of which in turn are named after French seaman, Thomas Vasse, who disappeared in the area in June 1801 during Nicolas Baudin's expedition. . The townsite of Vasse was gazetted in 1927; the area had previously been known as Newtown. A hall (originally known as Newtown Hall) was built in 1898, while the Old Vasse Primary School was constructed in 1901 and replaced by a newer school on the same site in 1960; the present cite was in use as a school as early as 1884 and there was a public school in the area in 1869. The population of Vasse wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruabon, Western Australia
Ruabon is a locality in Western Australia's South West in the local government area of the City of Busselton. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 82. In 1914 a stopping place called Abba River, named after the nearby river, on the former Nannup Branch Railway was established in the area of the locality. In 1925 during the Group Settlement Scheme, land near the stopping place was gazetted as a townsite called Abbba River. The stopping place and townsite were renamed to Ruabon in 1928 because the local post office was known as Ruabon Post Office and the Abba River Post Office, which now has its own locality, was about away from the railway siding; the. Welsh group settlers in the area may have influenced its name, which it shares with the small Welsh town of Ruabon Ruabon ( cy, Rhiwabon ) is a village and community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. The name comes from ''Rhiw Fabon'', ''rhiw'' being the Welsh word for "slope" or "hillside" and ''Fabon'' being a mut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quindalup, Western Australia
Quindalup is a small town in the South West region of Western Australia. It is situated along Caves Road between Busselton and Dunsborough on Geographe Bay. At the 2021 census, Quindalup had a population of 1,488. The area was the site of one of the earliest timber industries in the state. Several timber mills were constructed in the area and the products were exported utilising a jetty that had been constructed on the coast in the 1860s. The first recorded use of the name was on a timber mill owned by Henry Yelverton and McGibbon. Land was reserved by the government in the 1870s and in 1899 local fishermen petitioned for a town to be declared along the beach front. Lots were surveyed the same year and the town was gazetted in 1899. The name is Aboriginal in origin and means ''place of the Quenda''. The town was situated close to a shallow inlet, where the jetty was built, which was used to load timber sent up by a tramway, to boats that would ferry the timber to boats anch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prevelly, Western Australia
Prevelly is a townsite in the South West region of Western Australia. It is located on the coast at the mouth of Margaret River at the northern end of Calgardup Bay. At the , Prevelly had a population of 205. It was privately subdivided by Geoff Edwards in the early 1960s and named Prevelly; the shire petitioned for a townsite to be declared in 1977 and it was duly gazetted in 1978. The town was named after the Preveli monastery on Crete. Edwards was among the Australian soldiers given shelter at the St. John Monastery in 1941 prior to evacuation aboard . To thank the people of Crete and the Monastery, he began construction of a St. John the Theologian chapel in Prevelly. A fund for this purpose was established in 1984 and drew support from both Australian and British former service men. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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